Droid X Multi-touch Keyboard for Samsung Galaxy S

The Droid X has a good keyboard that supports multi-touch. If you try to just install it on the Samsung Galaxy S phones (I’ve only tested the Vibrant), the keys are barley readable. The font size is very small.

I have modified the original Droid X keyboard to specify a font size that can be seen on the Galaxy S phones.

While that was fine and worked great, I didn’t really like the light color of the keyboard. So I also created a version that is skinned to look like the stock Samsung Galaxy S Keyboard.

I’ve also added alternate character selections to the “QWERTY” row. The characters are the Numeric row of a standard keyboard.

Download from XDA Thread

The $1 Phone Dock

I was at the flea-market this weekend just looking for some deals on junk. I was skimming across a table and spotted this little gem.

This is a business card stand. my Samsung Galaxy S (Vibrant) fits perfectly both horizontally and vertically. The angle it sits is perfect for viewing video on the device.

There was only one on the table, I wanted at least 2 of them, so I could have one for work and at home. The best part, it was $1.

Stuck at Vibrant Screen after Update

I was stuck at the Vibrant screen after applying the official OTA update from T-Mobile the other day on my Samsung Vibrant. Most people were saying it was because of not running the Stock firmware, but I did not have any real “mods” to the OS, except for a GPS fix. I have also heard people that are running full, non-rooted, Stock firmware phones and still having the same issue.

I wanted to post the steps I took to fix my problem. Your results may vary, and I am in no way, shape or form, responsible for any problems that you may have because you read this and did what worked for me. I am just posting it because it worked for me, and others.

1. Download ODIN3 1.0
2. Download 512 PIT
3. Download JFD tar
   • Note that all 3 of those are from the same thread. It also wouldn't hurt for your to read that post too.
4. Open Odin, plug in your phone, then put it into download mode.
• To expand on this because a lot of people were asking "how to put in download mode". The easiest way I found to actually do it, if you can can connect via ADB is to do the following:
  
  # reboot download
  
  If you can't get that to work, try how i mention below (phone off, battery out, hold vol+ & vol-), or try searching these forums for "vibrant download mode" you will find other things that "work" for people
5. load the PIT file in appropriate area.
6. load the .tar file in the PDA area.
7. DO NOT check 're-partition'.
8. Click start, let it finish.
• At this point ODIN failed on me. and I got the "mobile-!-pc" image.
9. Now, pull your battery and unplug USB
10. I also took out the SIM and sdcard at this point.
11. bring the phone to download mode again
1. plug the USB back in (the phone should be off)
2. Hold down vol+ & vol-
3. Put battery back in
4. press power
12. re-run ODIN as mentioned above
    

Once ODIN completed successfully, it rebooted in to the Stock build. i let it do all that. then I shut it off, put the sdcard and SIM back in and booted in to recovery and restored from my Nandroid and I was back to the way it was right before I applied the update.

Resident Evil Inspired Windows 7 theme

This is a dynamic theme that uses my Picasa gallery for the images. The wallpaper is something I threw together while I was bored the other day. It is the eye of Milla Jovovich from the the first movie.

Here are some samples of the wallpaper. There are 11 total, some with and some without the Umbrella logo in the eye.

Download the Windows 7 Theme

Please vote for Droid Explorer

Voting has begun for the Community Coding Contest 2010. Please go support Droid Explorer and cast your vote for it today. There is approximately $20,719 USD worth of prizes that can be won. So please vote and have your friends vote and their friends too.

The voting “booth” is on the main page, on the right hand side of the page. Check the checkbox for Droid Explorer and then click the “Vote” button.

The other entry is just a short code snippet that is about 15 lines of code, counting whitespace. Droid Explorer is over 170,000 lines and used by thousands of people. Droid Explorer should have no problem winning this contest, and with your support it can.